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No Other Gods, Hubble Stark
No Other Gods, Hubble Stark
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
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Under Night's Darkness, Alexandra Fiege Ore
Under Night's Darkness, Alexandra Fiege Ore
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Under Night’s Darkness follows Landry, who has recently been paroled from prison and returns to his family home in rural Montana. He has recently become a born-again Christian and is in the midst of a frantic final attempt to redeem himself after a lifetime dedicated to bullying and cruelty. He’s not only haunted by the specters of domestic abuse and sexual assault, but also by the ghosts of the recently dead. Enraged at the failure of his tragicomic attempts at redemption, Landry commits the sadistic murder of his own brother. The ensuing cycle of revenge destroys Landry’s family and Landry …
Water Lake And Other Stories, Allison Rose Levy
Water Lake And Other Stories, Allison Rose Levy
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
This excerpt from the novel Water Lake takes place at an undisclosed time in an undisclosed American location called Water Town. It primarily follows Jason and Holly, who are employees at Water Hardware and lifelong residents of the insular, religious, isolated town. Water Town is in constant industrial and environmental decay and hosts many mysterious natural and social phenomena such as an unusual amount of animal deaths, a gender ratio skewed disproportionately towards men, and a single seal in a local body of water hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean. During an episode of impulsivity induced by neurological trauma, …
Beulahland: A Novel, Emily Ann Marie Nelson
Beulahland: A Novel, Emily Ann Marie Nelson
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
Beulahland follows Esther and Beulah Baxter, a pair of orphaned sisters traveling across the American west with their evangelist uncle in 1994. Raised on the seedy motivational speaking circuit of small towns and youth groups, Esther is determined to free Beulah from this nomadic way of life under from the neglectful care of their uncle August, a fame-chasing bodybuilder who wants to bring the world to God through his demonstrations of physical strength. This plan is put on hold when Beulah falls ill during a routine performance in the wildfire-wracked town of Orchard, Washington, and almost dies; her near-death experience …